In Wazamba, the umbrella pines are bent sideways by a Bora or a Sirocco, the soil beneath them is springy with orange-brown pine needles, and everything is warm, dry, and aromatic. It is an extremely fruity scent, if you stand back and look at it from a distance – dried plum and ...
The Brown Bear My wife Laura and I were on the beach, with three of our children, taking pictures of shore birds near our home in Alaska when we spotted a bear. The bear was thin and small, moving aimlessly. Just a few minutes later, I heard my daughter
One Seed Makes the Whole Earth Green Talks on Zen Talks given from 13/01/89 pm to 16/01/89 pm English Discourse series 4 Chapters Year published: 1989 One Seed Makes the Whole Earth Green Chapter #1 Chapter title: Peace of mind, my foot! 13 January 1989 pm in Gautam the Buddha ...
The Bâlea cable car, which is 3700 m long, was built in the early 1970s above the Bâlea glacial valley between the minimum and maximum final altitudes of 1200 and 2040 m, respectively. The Transfăgărășan highway was built between 1970 and 1974 with a series of improvements ...
Failed he and breathed his last in the Palace of Eternal Peace,The Palace fair of his thoughts lay not this side the highlands.Beautiful chambers58 are vainly sought in his rural temple,Now are the pines near his shrine59 nesting places for herons,Through the courts aged60 peasants saunter,...
, draped with the purple of the red petticoats and the dazzling white of the shifts which hung drying from their windows; while higher still, above the district, the Janiculum rose into all the luminary's dazzlement, uprearing the slender profile of Sant' Onofrio amidst cypresses and pines....